27/08/2021
What are the best activities for ESL teaching in a kindergarten?
A typical kindergarten in China is fully equipped:you’ll find a TV, a laptop, a touchscreen whiteboard, and lots of toys, puppets, games and materials to entertain your students.
Here are a few activities you can use:
—Simon says✅
You can invent new games, based on the ones children actually play in your home country. You should associate words with gestures - it’s the key to effective teaching ESL kindergarten. Use it when you sing songs, learn new vocabulary or revise it.
Introducing body parts make children touch the body part you name: head, nose, eyes , shoulders . The same goes for animals, numbers , verbs or colors. This will help your young learners learn faster and show better results without getting bored or distracted.
🌠🛤🌃Flashcards✅
Movement and colorful pictures are two things , that matter to a young child. Using cards with beautiful drawings of animals or things are great for ESL games for kindergarten.You could also take them out to review words or to learn the lyrics of a song.
🥝🥦🍍🍓🥖🍟🍔🦴🫕🍦Objects ✅
Replace pictures with objects whenever it’s possible.
Touching and seeing things make memorizing easier.
Songs and video clips 🎵 🎶 ✅
Are you teaching kids about jobs, animals, fruit or colors? A song just can’t fail. Plus, it’s a great way to calm down a group of noisy kids. Don’t be afraid of listening over and over the same playlist , because young ones enjoy familiar things and like to hear and sing along. While listening you can do exercises with flashcards:whenever they recognize a word, children should show you the right card.
—Coloring✅
As in China kindergarten children can’t draw or write yet, coloring is the ideal option. They develop skills, choose colors and focus, while you can sing songs or repeat new words together.